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Supreme Court Sets November Trial for Spain’s Attorney General Over Alleged Secrets Leak

The court will question Álvaro García Ortiz only after hearing roughly 40 witnesses, including the partner of Madrid’s regional president.

Overview

  • Hearings are scheduled for November 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 and 13 in morning and afternoon sessions, with opening testimony starting at 10:00.
  • García Ortiz is slated to testify on the afternoon of November 12 after all witness and documentary evidence, a sequence allowed by a 2023 Supreme Court precedent.
  • About 40–41 witnesses will appear, among them journalists, Guardia Civil UCO agents, prosecutors and political figures such as Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
  • Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and a private accuser in the case, is scheduled to testify on November 4.
  • The seven-judge panel includes Andrés Martínez Arrieta, Ana Ferrer, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Manuel Marchena, Antonio del Moral, Susana Polo and Carmen Lamela, and media describe the case as the first trial of a Spanish attorney general in the democratic era.